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MFP market in Emea falls 24%
The
combined printer, copier and multifunctional product (MFP) market in
Europe, Middle East and Africa (Emea) totalled about 18 million units
in the first half of 2009, a 24.4 per cent decline over first half of
2008 shipments, according to research firm Gartner.”The impact of the
global recession has been detrimental to consumers, businesses and
vendors respectively during the first half of 2009,” said Tosh
Prabhakar, Senior Analyst at Gartner.”Banks and finance institutions
continue to hold back on lending, limiting the availability of credit
for investment in hardware devices. With reduced budgets, businesses
cannot invest in equipment and continue to hold on to existing devices,
which as a result is hampering sales and impacting revenues for the
print vendors.”However, as vendors see hardware sales decline, there is
an upturn in vendors widening their document management software and
services capabilities to help businesses reduce and better manage
costs.”In the Emea printer, copier and MFP market, each of the
top-five vendors recorded a decline in the first half of 2009 . The
vendors worst hit by the global recession were Hewlett-Packard and
Canon, which saw their shipments fall 31.5 per cent and 25.8 per cent
respectively.In contrast to worldwide figures, sales were down in the
Middle East but not at the same levels.”We foresee the market in the
second half of the year continuing to show a double-digit decline, and
in the worst-case scenario could see a 30 per cent decrease,” said
Prabhakar.http://www.itp.net/566102-printer-market-jammed-by-slump-in-sales
Printer market jammed by slump in sales
Falling
printer shipments expected to continue after sharp decline during first
half of the yearCorporate customers have been holding back IT purchases
to such an extent that the EMEA printer market crashed 24% in unit
terms during the first half of the year.New data from analyst firm
Gartner reveals that combined sales of printers, copiers and MFPs
totalled just 18 million units between January and the end of June —
around six million units fewer than the same period last year.Tosh
Prabhakar, senior analyst at Gartner, says the global recession
continues to be “detrimental” to the IT business and blames the limited
availability of credit for the lack of hardware spending.“With reduced
budgets, businesses cannot invest in new equipment and continue to hold
onto existing devices, which as a result is hampering new sales and
impacting revenues for the print vendors,” said Prabhakar.“However, as
vendors see hardware sales decline, there is an upturn in vendors
widening their document management software and services capabilities
to help businesses reduce and better manage costs.”In the EMEA
printer, copier and MFP market, each of the top-five vendors suffered a
decline in the first half of 2009.Market heavyweight HP and rival Canon
came off worst, registering a slump in shipments of 31% and 26%
respectively. The pair accounted for 56% of the market between them
during the first half of 2009.Epson, Brother and Samsung also failed to
post growth, although their sales did not shrink at the same rate as
the market average.Printer vendors who think they have now seen the
worst of it could be in for a rude awakening, according to Gartner.“We
foresee the market in the second half of the year continuing to show
double-digit decline, and in the worst-case scenario could reach a 30%
decrease,” warned Prabhakar.http://www.techcentral.ie/article.aspx?id=13909#
ireland:Printer, copier and MFP sales plummet
Now channel looks to managed services for salvation
A
steep decline in shipments of printer, copier and multifunction (MFP)
products in the first half of 2009 is likely to spur vendors and
resellers to concentrate on managed print services.Latest figures from
technology research specialist Gartner show shipments down nearly 25%
in the first half of the year. There is no sign of a recovery in the
second half, with Gartner predicting a double-digit decline which “in
the worst case scenario could hit 30%”.Gartner senior analyst
Todd Prabhakar said that, with credit for investment in new hardware
and reduced budgets limited, businesses were holding on to existing
equipment, “hampering new sales and impacting revenues for the print
vendors”.Prabhakar expects an increase in vendors “widening their
document management software and services capabilities to help reduce
and better manage costs”. With hardware spend frozen, vendors were
looking at alternatives such as managed print services to increase
revenue. “Vendors must sell services to businesses that will help them
better control costs,” he said.Gartner’s figures were published
at the same time as HP’s results for the third-quarter to 31 July,
which showed a 23% fall in overall printer unit shipments and a huge
42% decline in commercial printer unit shipments.Prabhakar’s comments
chime with recent observations by market researcher Photizo, which
reckons that over 50% of all devices will be covered by managed print
services contracts. Photizo sees Europe overtaking the US to become the
largest market for managed print services by 2013.Neil Dover, IPG and
ISS product manager at HP distributor Clarity, said the Irish market
was following the downward trend in shipments identified by Gartner,
adding that a recovery appeared unlikely until the middle of next
year.He agreed that MPS was “helping quite a bit” as HP started to try
and take on copier vendors in the services arena. “HP has targeted a
number of resellers that are qualified to promote the managed services
piece,” he told Irish Computer, “and it is working very closely with
them.http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/business/printer-copier-sales-down-13-percent-business-capsule_100235939.html
India :Printer, copier sales down 13 percent
Bangalore,
Aug 2009 Sale of printers, copiers and multifunctional office
automation products witnessed a 13 percent decline in India in the
first half of 2009 over the like period the previous year, said global
IT research and advisory firm Gartner.
“The impact of global
recession was visible in the Indian market as only 1.1 million units of
office automation products, including printers and copiers could be
shipped in the first six months,” Gartner principal research analyst
Vishal Tripathi said in a statement. -
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